Word

פַּחַת

pachath · H6354 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

pit

A hollow area in the ground or a rock, either natural or manmade, which can be used by hunters to trap animals, or as a hiding place; associated with danger

Examples
Isaiah 24:17 Terror and pit and snare Confront you, you inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18 Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.
Jeremiah 48:28 “Leave the cities and live among the rocky cliffs, You inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
אֶחָדone 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ךָּyou 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward 6
מִןfrom 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

פֶּהmouth 1
תָּוֶךְmiddle 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

βόθυνος bóthynos · G999 · pit, ditch, hole: Greek βόθυνος renders Hebrew פַּחַת when both denote a literal hole or pit in the ground; the Greek term emphasizes cistern-like depth while the Hebrew encompasses pit, hole, and metaphorical snare contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Landforms001002003: פַּחַת denotes a pit or hole in the terrain, as of the pit Absalom's body is thrown into in 2 Samuel 18:17, and the pit and snare confronting the inhabitant of the earth in Isaiah 24:17 and 24:18.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פַּחַתpachath · H6354פְּחֶתֶת pᵉchetheth · H6356 · rot · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6354. pachath מַּ֫חַת noun masculine2Sa 18:17 (in 2Sa 17:9 read בְּאַחַד) pit; — ׳פ…

H6354. pachath
מַּ֫חַת noun masculine2Sa 18:17 (in 2Sa 17:9 read בְּאַחַד) pit; — ׳פ absolute Jer 48:43 +, מָּ֑חַת Jer 48:28; plural מְּחָתִים 2Sa 17:9; — pit, 2Sa 17:9; 2Sa 18:17; Jer 48:28 (Gie question text); figurative of calamity וָפ ׳מַּחַד וָפָ֑ח Jer 48:43 compare Jer 48:44; Jer 48:44 = Isa 24:17 compare Isa 24:18; Isa 24:18 and Lam 3:47.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Landforms10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0